Inventive Problem Solving inspires the world's most innovative and demanding companies - businesses such as IBM, Novartis, Unilever, PepsiCo, American Express and North American Power - to align, collaborate, invent and deliver inspired solutions and impressive results. We have been optimizing team success with our problem solving process for 20 years across North America, South America and Europe.

"They create contagious optimism--turning a group from focusing on the failures of the past to the promises of the future".

"Inventive Problem Solving was chosen over a number of traditional branding and advertising agencies to help our company develop & activate a powerful new brand that consumers would perceive as believable, compelling and differentiated.

The discipline and creative coaching that they provided allowed our own people, who know most about our business, to develop the solutions we needed. Their unique process allowed us to quickly understand and define our brand challenges, our short and long-term ambition and what success should look like.

Our work together helped shape the future of our organization. We highly recommend them to any team looking to uncover breakthrough ideas and develop a culture of creative problem solving." Greg Brietbart, Chief Marketing Officer, North American Power

• Travelers Insurance called it "...a systematic process of alignment and collaboration that was at the heart of making our vital initiative an unqualified success,".

• IBM Global Services called it "...a great method of bringing thoughts from many people, combining them into a powerful message and delivering a recommendation that is supported by our global team".

• Unilever HPCNA called it "...one of the most efficient and effective methods of idea generation and paring that we have participated in."

• Echopass (acquired by Genesys Labs) called it "A game changer...they trained our sales team to use their tools and methods successfully differentiating our sales process by aligning customer desires with our solutions".

• Merrill Lynch called it "A great experience. Overall, an excellent forum for collecting and sharing ideas efficiently".

• American Express called it "A creative thinking process thatled to real business solutions".

• Pepsi-Cola called it "Great process! Great results that created a strong sense of commitment and generated the free flowing of ideas and very powerful thinking".

• IAC/InterActiveCorp called it "....worth the time spent and very useful. Both effective and efficient".

• Novartis called it "....an education and exhilarating experience".

Are you thinking about how to optimize your team's problem solving ability?

A meeting isn't a solution.

How do we begin together?

Practical and powerful solutions begin with a team that is aligned on it's priorities and equipped to attack a challenge.

But most teams (whether at the executive level or other levels) try to solve problems without a shared vision of desired outcomes.

• If you set specific criteria, you know you're headed in the right direction

• If you generate many solutions, you increase the odds of finding a winner

• If you rank the solutions, you'll find the best that meet your criteria

• If you share the best solution, you can explain the WHY as well as the what

This is a fast-paced and interactive program certain to inform & enrich your next event or meeting.

Great Problem Solvers Need Four Recipes combines proven methods, practical tips, current research and real case examples from our 20 years of successful corporate engagements into a compelling and informative program that professionals will easily understand, enjoy and be inspired to use.

The content is available in a variety of lengths and formats, from workshops to keynote presentations.

Time, Inc. called our 60-minute workshop experience "...exciting and creative. We came out of the workshop with information that is applicable, inspirational and actionable".

When you hire Inventive Problem Solving you are hiring a committed, high-energy team who passionately believes that a diverse group of professionals can be transformed into a focused hard-charging team.

You'll be engaging Jerry Shrair who will lead your project or event directly, an experienced business strategist and proven creative thinker with a wealth of real world accomplishments, such as:

• Part of the BBDO/New York account team that managed the flagship Pepsi-Cola business.

• Joined Pepsi as their first head of creative development. Responsible for leading the successful development of multiple national and international marketing campaigns.